id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21623 Elliott, Calvin Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View .txt text/plain 68429 3977 76 Chapter XXVI--Usury oppresses the poor--continued 160 Chapter XXVII--Usury oppresses the poor--continued 168 money, or increase taken for a loan of any kind of property. Theological Dictionary: "Usury, the gain taken for a loan of money or These laws of God, given by Moses, positively forbade usury or to prohibit usury on a loan which the borrower secures as capital for brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury or increase, The usurer and the borrower on usury, both, reverse the true order by wealth, no great fortune can be gathered in the life time of one man. money by usury was no better than taking a man's life. ./cache/21623.txt ./txt/21623.txt